Building Dynamics

Taylor & Francis

Building DynamicsExploring Architecture of Change\nAuthor(s): Branko Kolarevic, Vera Parlac\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138791015, 978-1138791015\nSynopsis\nBuildings are increasingly dynamic: equipped with sensors, actuators and controllers, they self-adjust in response to changes in the external and internal environments and patterns of use.\n\nBuilding Dynamics asks how this change manifests itself and what it means for architecture as buildings weather, programs change, envelopes adapt, interiors are reconfigured, systems replaced. Contributors including Chuck Hoberman, Robert Kronenburg, David Leatherbarrow, Kas Oosterhuis, Enric Ruiz-Geli, and many others explore the changes buildings undergo and the scale and speed at which these occur examining which changes are necessary, useful, desirable, and possible.\n\nThe first book to offer a coherent, comprehensive approach to this topic, it draws together.